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Quotes About Immersed

It's as though I'm sitting in the audience caught up in a well-made film.
~ Joan Frances Casey
I like involved projects.
~ Tori Amos
I was too absorbed to be responsive
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.
~ Rick James
concentrated
~ Alice Munro
My research was stimulating but solitary
~ Alison Bechdel
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control.
~ Daniel Goleman
You must know that feeling when it's raining outside and the heating's on and you lose yourself, utterly, in a book. You read and you read and you feel the pages slipping through your fingers until suddenly there are fewer in your right hand than there are in your left and you want to slow down but you still hurtle on towards a conclusion you can hardly bear to discover.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The next world, of what shall consist its poisons and delights? Love in this world avoided me. And love's issue, beyond all measure. Immersed in the saltless broth of my existence, I tried on moods.
~ Louise Erdrich
Nevertheless, before she grew sick, he would often step quietly into the room in which his mother was reading, acknowledging her with a smile (always returned) before taking a seat close by and immersing himself in his own book so that, although both were lost in their own individual worlds, they shared the same space and time.
~ John Connolly
I haven't read all of The Witcher novels. And that's only because I am very thorough. I read every detail and often have to go back to the page before and read it again, and I ask questions as I go along, since I am that character.
~ Anya Chalotra
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.
~ David Lee
And I was entirely held by my own words, as if my words had become a liquid and I immersed in them, like a drowning man in a rushing river.
~ Rose Tremain
So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.
~ Margaret Atwood
Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:
~ Margaret Atwood
I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.
~ Jonathan Glazer
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.
~ Don Cupitt
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
~ Anne Tyler
I must continue to work hard in training. I need to think more like a goal scorer; sometimes I get so immersed in the game because I love general play so much.
~ Anthony Martial
Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.
~ Saigyo
I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
~ Natalia Kills
One of the reasons why literature is important is that it gives us an instrument with which to understand time. In real life time is something that devours us, is something that does not give us the necessary perspective to understand how this time in which we are immersed flows; and so we do not have perspective, we do not have the necessary distance to understand really what is happening. Therefore, we need artificial order for understanding time.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I'm so immersed in all this evil, how could I not be evil too?
~ Sophocles